A general public nuisance and threat to the public safety results from the repetitive, unnecessary driving of motor vehicles, also known as cruising, in designated areas of the Borough of Tyrone. The purpose of this article is to reduce the noise of loud radios and screeching tires, air pollution and congestion resulting from cruising and to insure access for safety vehicles to and through said designated areas by restricting repetitive driving of motor vehicles in said designated areas.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
CRUISING
Driving a motor vehicle on a street past a traffic control point, designated by a police officer, in a designated area three or more times within any one-hour period from 8:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m., or six or more times within any three-hour period from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., prevailing time. Passing the control point a third or sixth time, as set forth herein, shall constitute cruising and, therefore, constitute a violation of this article.
DESIGNATED AREAS
The following areas of the Borough of Tyrone:
A. 
Logan Avenue bounded by Thirteenth Street and Fourteenth Street.
B. 
Thirteenth Street bounded by Logan Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue.
C. 
Tenth Street from Lincoln Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue.
D. 
Pennsylvania Avenue from Fourteenth Street to the railroad crossing near the IGA Market.
E. 
Clay Avenue from Fifteenth Street to Third Street.
F. 
Fifteenth Street from Lincoln Avenue to Clay Avenue.
G. 
Lincoln Avenue from Fourteenth Street to Tenth Street.
H. 
Washington Avenue from Tenth Street to Third Street.
I. 
Park Avenue from Ninth Street to Third Street.
J. 
Columbia Avenue from Fifteenth Street to Twentieth Street.
K. 
Such other areas as may be clearly marked by the Tyrone Borough Police Department.
TRAFFIC CONTROL POINT
A clearly identified reference point on a street in the designated areas selected by a police officer for the purpose of enforcing this article.
No person shall engage in unnecessary repetitive driving, also known for purposes of this article as "cruising." For purposes of this article, the person having control and/or ownership of a motor vehicle shall be considered the person cruising, without regard as to whether that person was actually driving the motor vehicle each time it passed the traffic control point. Having control or ownership of a motor vehicle means either the owner of the vehicle, as stated on the vehicle registration, if said owner is present in the vehicle at the time of the violation, or if the owner is not present in the vehicle, the person operating the vehicle at the time of the violation of this article.
This article shall not apply to any municipal, emergency, police, fire, ambulance or other governmental vehicle when the same is being operated in an official capacity. In addition, this article shall not apply to any duly licensed public transportation vehicle.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000 plus the cost of prosecution, and/or in default of payment of the fine be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each violation of this article shall constitute a separate and distinct offense which shall be subject to the aforesaid penalties.